Changed skin, (:
The end of something means,
the beginning of something new.


It's The End Of The Road - Matt Goss
Yesterday a clear horizon
Now the clouds are rollin' in it's disappeared
The one thing that i've always believed in
It's strange how right now it all seems so unclear

I consult my soul
And it tells me that it knows
There's no doubt one day I'm gonna fly
Gotta stand up, dust myself off
Just for now
It's the end of the road

When something ends
Something begins,
But now it's just the end of the road
When someone loses someone wins
But now it's just the end of the road
Don't get to fix it if it doesn't break
But now it's just the end of the road
When you gotta leave
It makes you wanna stay
I know it's the end of the road
It's the end of the road

One line can change a story
So sometimes let the line just be unsaid
Pride only thinks about the glory
And just the right now
And not the days ahead

I've held my breath
Walked on shells hoped for the best
What the future holds
I don't know
I've gotta stand up, dust myself off
Just for now
It's the end of the road

When something ends
Something begins,
But now it's just the end of the road
When someone loses someone wins
But now it's just the end of the road
Don't get to fix it if it doesn't break
But now it's just the end of the road
When you gotta leave
It makes you wanna stay
I know it's the end of the road

I've been travelin'
Get the dust right off the windshield
No one gets the road map to their life
'Cause life is so subjective
I'll take my pain and I wanna protect it
Never blinds me always reminds me
There's so much more to see
At the end of the road

When something ends
Something begins
Is this the end of the road?
When someone loses
Someone wins
Is this the end of the road?

When something ends
Something begins,
But now it's just the end of the road
When someone loses someone wins
But now it's just the end of the road
Don't get to fix it if it doesn't break
But now it's just the end of the road
When you gotta leave
It makes you wanna stay
I know it's the end of the road

Ah, a really nice song, once again. (: Today has been alright, slept at 10+ by accident. I woke up at 7 to reply sms-es, slept again till 9. Then, ate breakfast, watched TV and came online! (: Ah, this is the life. I'm so glad the weekends are here, really. Thankyou God. I'm also glad we have an extra Monday holiday to finish up on things, and also for a good rest till the week starts again. There's band next two saturdays. I'm looking forward to band fiesta. Nothing can go wrong.

I've such wonderful friends in school and at band. And even out of school and band, what can go wrong? I love you guys, for picking me up when I fall. For encouraging me through my darkest times. For loving me even when I didn't deserve it. For caring for me, for showing me love, care and concern.
I love you guys! (:


Okay, I've decided to, blog only during the weekends, unless I'm super free during the weekdays, which won't be very possible.

Recap.
Monday, first day of school was absolutely boring, okay, maybe not that boring. But it was tiring, really. It exhausted me out both physically and mentally. Homework kept piling up like crazy. Band practice didn't went as well as I expected it too. Well, all in all, I can't expect things to go smoothly every time, can I? Or else, I'll never learn anything. I took the band for warmups. First time conducting the whole band, it was really an experience.

Tuesday, second day of school, well, things started to change. It wasn't so boring after all, lessons[except physics] seemed very interesting. I took down alot of notes, really! New english teacher, I guess we all need a change sometimes, and it was a different timetable as well. Had, PE that day, mass run was cancelled though due to the weather, I think. PE was alright, we played pretty retarded games, and I stupidly suggested duckduckgoose, a pretty fun game to play with the younger kids during OBS, didn't expect it to be so disaterous with secthrees! Haha, I guess, we've all outgrown it! After the many games, we took height and weight. I won't want to mention much about it though. I didn't put on any weight. Band was much better, we went through the band fiesta pieces. My solo didn't really go out too fine, my usage of vibrato really sucked. But it was much better on thursday. On the whole, band was much more productive as compared to the previous day.

Wednesday, third day of school. We had spot check early in the morning. It was damn lame la, they only checked HAIR. I pulled up my sock like crazy. Then, the councillor was so dumb, she asked me to pin up my fringe. I told her, 'What the hell, I already pin up all already. Look at the number of clips I used'. She said, 'Okay, okay.' and moved on. Seriously, I pinned up all my fringe already, and the rest that dropped were all baby hair, and how am I supposed to pin them up huh. I guess, councillors aren't that great after all. Well, there are really nice ones. (: Okay, after that, was lessons, on going! I enjoyed recess alot. Really. OHOH, I'm saving money like crazy now. I save 15 dollars every week, that means that I only have 3bucks to spend a day. I did it, the whole week, and I also managed to save extra cents! Not bad okay, for a spend thrift like me, michellina. (: Okay, went home with caryn and met trina, my 10min friend! (:

Thursday, fourth day of school. Okay, truthfully, I kept wishing for time to pass faster. The weekends mean everything to me, really. Lessons were alright, stayed in class during recess to get abit of homework done. These recess sessions aren't very productive, I always start stoning like crazy. Rachael and XY were watching singing in the rain. Thursday's timetable is the longest of all. Lessons end at 2:15. And the time takes forever to pass during these times. Band was great. (: I managed to play Noah's Ark all through. I didn't get lost at all! My holiday practicing at home really worked out. And all the times that I slept with Noah's Ark playing in my head. I know my part pratically inside out. Now, all I have to do is to work out the running notes, and help my section play their part as well. (: Everything is going to work out fine, even with the alumni. Hakuna Matata, it means no worries.

Friday, today. 5th day of school, also the day before the weekends. Everything seem to pass pretty fast today. I sat with caryn during the concert, and laughed like crazy because the teachers were all so damn funny!! Really. (: I can't put the performance into words, it's just not impossible. Well, after the concert was chemistry. I didn't bring chem stuff to the lab at all. Ended up cam-whoring with dawn! It was damn fun, thanks dawn, love. After that was lunch, I managed to persuade kelley to stay for lunch, along with caryn, rachael, xy and twink! Fried rice was damn nice! (: After that, went home with kelley because caryn stayed on with rachael to talk. I love you caryn, and I forgive you!

Okay, I couldn't sleep the whole afternoon today. Haven't been sleeping well for the past few days thanks to homework yeah. I guess I'll just have to sleep more for tonight. I really can't decide whether to go back to my primary school for the carnival tomorrow! ): I'll have to make up my mind tonight. It's ten now. My eyes are really tired already. Going to bed soon, I guess.
Goodnight people! (:


Okay, I’ll talk on yesterday night first, it was pretty interesting, will not elaborate much though. The other interesting thing was that, Martyn slept in my room yesterday. Okay, I was forced to let him sleep in because he kept begging me! So, we started talking like crazy, and in the end, we confessed to everything that we hid from parents, and we also talked about all the stuff we never talked about before. A heart to heart talk with my brother, it sounds weird, but yeah, we did it. We ended up sleeping at 2plus. While talking to him, I also did book reviews, so it wasn’t all that unproductive. Now, I’m feeling super lethargic, and I still have a lot of homework to finish up! I guess I’ll just have to step on it!

Today, I went to church! Church was great! I don’t know why, but I’ve been enjoying Sunday school a lot these few weeks. Maybe it’s because our classes are combined, and we have some bonding time, and there are also many weird guys in the class who keeps staring like crazy! It was very funny, and we had like many weird and awkward staring sessions. And today, there was this new guy, from Texas, and his hair was curly! At first glance, it really looked fake, really. Then, I was convinced by Melissa and Esther that his hair really is real, not a wig. But most probably he did something to it, like over-permed it. It was really funny, and because of this, the FOUR of us had to answer a lot of questions! It was really hilarious, and I really wish Sunday school will be combined forever! I guess, it’s an impossible wish, but yeah, I enjoyed it a lot.

After church, we headed down to Tiong Baru Plaza for lunch and a bit of last minute shopping for school stuff. We went with cousins again yeah. Chris didn’t come to church today because she had tuition classes in the morning and afternoon; I guess this is what O-levels do to someone. But, she went for church yesterday, so I guess it’s alright. Lunch was alright, I couldn’t finish the claypot rice that I ordered, it was a really huge portion, okay, maybe not. After that, we went to popular, then Sportslink to get Martyn’s trunks. After that, we went back home. Slacked around a bit before taking a bath and starting on homework again, I don’t think I’ll be able to finish all my homework, but I will have to at least try my best to complete most of them by today yeah, at least I got something to hand up tomorrow!

I still can’t believe it, it’s the last day of the holidays, everything passed so fast, the Malacca trip, OBS, and especially the last week. Everything happened really quickly, and tomorrow’s the start of semester 2, I don’t feel prepared at all, but I’ll have to be, fast. School will be really boring and everything, but I promise to try my best to pay attention. And band will be really great, we’ll be preparing for Band Fiesta on the 15 of July. We’ll be playing, Shrek 2, Disney Spectacular, HSM only ‘we’re all in this together’ and one more which I can’t remember. I’ll have to re-practice my Disney Spectacular solo, before performing in July. It’s going to be great, I can feel the excitement already! (: Okay, I’m looking forward to tomorrow!


Okay, today was just as much the same as yesterday, really.

After completing 20 newpaper articles, I'm really exhausted, mentally. Reading newspapers hasn't been a real habit for me, and these 20 newspapers articles, I've really reflected alot on my life. All the deaths caused by accidents, the movement of different fish markets, different people from all walks of life, some good, most bad. I guess it's enviroment we grow up in that really differentiats us as people of the world. (: Okay, I'm really brain dead. Till tomorrow! It's the last day of holiday. I can't wait for school to start, then again, I don't want school to start!

Paradoxical, but yeah, that's me!


Okay, today was really boring. Even Mavis says I live a boring life. On the whole, today can be summed up in one word, 'homework'. (:


Yesterday was great! Really, okay, started of the day pretty late, I woke up at around 8.30. Rachael called and asked for English comprehension book, so, I helped her photocopy, then met her at jurong east mrt station control station before meeting Joshua at popular. Rachael was late, but it was alright I guess, everything worked out fine. Passed the file to Rachael, then Rachael went to the library to do it. Joshua wore a white shirt and jeans just like he said in the sms, managed to spot him pretty easily when he came out of popular. Then we set of for IMM before remembering that we should first get tickets for the movie. We changed direction and went in search for the movie ticketing counter, he managed to find it at the second level.

Wow, jurong east changed a lot, the last time I’ve been there would be 23989032795 years ago, okay, maybe not. Just last year, but still, it seemed so long ago. This half a year was a really memorable half a year for me, really, all the experiences gained through syf, the friends made in the new class, and even OBS. It’s just great, really! Okay, back to the point, after we got tickets, we went to IMM, went in search of Band World because we weren’t hungry yet! We searched HIGH and LOW, and in many rounds before we decided to ask the receptionist, and when we found it in the end, it wasn’t opened. A huge blow of disappointment, we were really looking forward to Band World.

Okay, we decided to go for lunch after that, it was at Ajisen Ramen, the food was good, but the portion was huge! I couldn’t finish it, but Joshua managed to! I was really full, and really satisfied with the meal. (: Then we went to Band World one last time before heading to Jurong Entertainment Center for our movie. We saw that it was still closed. After that was the movie, Joshua treated me to drinks, thanks a lot yeah! (: The movie was really funny, made me laugh a lot! After that, we realised we had a lot of time, so we decided to go back to IMM, the walk there was horribly rocky, and with heels, I had to be extra careful walking. I called Jolynn, and she gave me the number for Band World, Joshua called them, and found out that they only opened at 6! We were surprised, because the receptionist said that it was opened from 12 to 2 or something like that. We walked around for quite abit before settling down at the benches at the outdoor playground. We sat there and talked for about 2 hours, it was really great, and much better than walking around IMM aimlessly.

I don’t know why, but I seem to realise how fragile life is, just a simple fault of anyone, and there goes life. Well, we can’t predict any accidents, and we don’t want them to come knocking on our door in any situation. I really admire those lying in the hospitals bed, knowing that they might die just any moment, but still carry on living life meaningfully, like treasuring every last moment they have, with their friends and family. How courageous, okay, back to the point once again. After the long talk, we decided to try out Band World again, when we saw the opened doors, our faces both beamed with huge smiles! Okay, weird description but yeah. Joshua wanted to get badges and mallets for his band, and I didn’t have anything in mind to get, I remembered that Celestine wanted something, but I just couldn’t remember what it is that she wanted. I wanted to call her, but I realised that she wasn’t in Singapore. Okay, Joshua wanted to get mallets, but the shop didn’t have the means of testing. Well, I couldn’t help, but yeah. He spent like 102.60! I managed to calculate it mentally, plus the 10 percent discount only for the mallet sticks and after that, still had to count in the badges, I think I’m just made for math! Okay, maybe not, math is tiring, and I can’t just sit down for 34535435 hours attempting math sums, I’ll go mad!

After that, we left for city hall, I had to meet Clarence and Mavis, and he went straight to VCH first to meet his friends. Clarence, Mavis and I, were kind of lost! The way I walked at first was correct! But, I doubted myself, and that cost us a lot of time. I’m sorry guys! We walked around a lot, in the end, thanks to me again, we managed to find our way there. I sang a lot on the way, (: Well, isn’t this Michellina? I wouldn’t be Michellina if I don’t sing at all in a single day, really! I sing at really random moments, I found out. Even during OBS, it was the singing that kept me alive, and going! When we reached VCH, I called enjia, and realised that she was just a metre away from me, I was laughing. Okay, we got our tickets, and paid her back. Then we went into the hall.

This time, I sat with Clarence and Mavis, and Joshua sat with his friends. Guess what? We were just 2 seats away, and I was looking out for him like crazy! Clarence found that out, after the intermission! The pieces they played were alright except for the last piece. It was a really nice piece, I have to be honest, but I felt that it just wasn’t right for the finale piece. Maybe because I don’t really know how to appreciate good music, I felt it was much too boring, I ended up talking to Mavis and Clarence a lot. The rest of the piece were really good, I enjoyed the brass sextet a lot, and really admire them for their huge courage, they really have what it takes to be really wonderful musicians and I’m no way near them. I’ve learnt a lot from this concert, and hopefully, I’ve learnt to be a better person and music maker! I can’t wait for band to start next week, but I don’t want school to start! Okay, paradoxical, but yeah, that’s what I really feel, and it’s also super impossible, guess I should stop dreaming and really cling on to reality. Okay, after that, took MRT home with Mavis, and my parents were super worried, so they decided to pick me up from boon lay. Thanks mum and dad yeah!

I would love to end of the post with thanking Mavis, Clarence and especially Joshua, thanks a lot for making my day. It was really enjoyable, throughout the whole time, though we may get lost a lot of times, but it was really that journey of searching that made me appreciate finding the place much more. Thanks for being there for me! (: I love you!

Well, today was alright on the whole. Woke up at around 9plus to reply sms-es, then went back to bed till about 11plus, after that, I ate breakfast cum lunch, and slacked around a bit, watched TV, and then, mum came back. Thus, I decided to start of with completing my English newspaper articles, now, I’ve finished cutting and pasting them on foolscap paper, after that, I went on to write the English composition. ‘Write about how a serious accident led to an area being made safer for those who work or live there.’ Well, I haven’t finished it yet though. Anyway, tomorrow was supposed to be trip to Sentosa with Jessabelle, Suying, Jiaxin, Nadrah and Jacqueline, however it wasn’t possible because some of them couldn’t make it, I guess it’s alright, there’s always next time, I hope. Okay, that’s all for now, I’ll have to finish up my homework, hopefully before school starts, if not, by the first week of the school yeah! (:


Friendship never ends!

Well, yesterday was pretty boring, compared to last week’s Monday. I woke up at around 7plus today, nothing much happened, breakfast was bought back. Daddy took half-day leave today. So, we left home at around 11plus for Jurong Point. We also went to get my new phone, and also to get movie tickets for Fantastic Four at night. When we reached the shop, I saw many various phones, in the end, this sony errison phone struck me, W850i, well, it wasn’t very cheap, but it wasn’t very expensive either. I guess, that was the only phone in the entire chart that stroke me, thus I decided to get it. Dad agreed to it, and paid up, I gave me a hug! (: Now I’m damn happy! Okay, so after that we bought lunch and headed back home, because daddy had to go to work. Okay, after that, slacked around the whole afternoon. I stared at my E maths book for almost the whole afternoon getting nothing done. Ah, I’ve failed to do what I’ve set out to do. I guess it’s just not me to be doing homework without any motivation at all. Time flies, and soon it was already 6, I rushed to bathe, then changed up and went off. I didn’t even feel like having dinner, it seemed like it was just lunch a few hours ago! Boys were crazy to make daddy mad once again. Okay, shall not elaborate on that. I watched Fantastic Four with the boys and daddy. Wow, the show was amazing, really, much better than spiderman 3. There was much more action and the plot was great too! I really enjoyed it, it didn’t really link much to the first movie yeah. After that, bought some sushi and went back home. An alright day spent!

Okay, today, now’s 9plus, I woke up at around 7. I’ll have to do some work before going out in the afternoon. I will not just stare at books this time! I’m going to make a list and really going to get things done this time. I’ll be going out with mum and cousins for a bit of shopping at Queensway today. It’s going to be great I guess? (: Other than that, I’ve no prediction of the future. I might just come back to blog about it later, or maybe not! We’ll see first.


Okay, life has been great today. I started of morning with a morning call from Joshua, felt really tired, so I decided to rest in bed for a while, and went through a lot of my thoughts. Then I finally woke up, washed up and prepared to go to church. Church was pretty interesting today, combined classes again because Jeremy and Priscilla were in hospital taking care of their newborn and recuperating at the same time. Soon Kuan and Jessica took over the two classes. I sat with Melissa Tay today yeah, Sunday school was super interesting. We had this lame thing going on; whenever any guy stares we would hit each other on the lap. I ended up with many hits, the guy in yellow kept staring at me, and Emmanuel too. Ah, I don’t know what this means, but yeah, I don’t want guys staring at me during Sunday school. That yellow guy stared at me a few times last Sunday as well. Maybe I’m overly attractive, or maybe it’s just the super tanned me that stepped into Sunday school that amazed him. Sunday school ended pretty late today, we learnt a lot about the beatitudes. I ended up reading the next chapter on my own because I didn’t really understood chapter 5, beatitudes. I read the next chapter on judging others, and I learnt quite a bit from the scripture. I can’t wait for church next week!

After church, family went off to Plaza Singapura for lunch. It seems really repetitive already, been there so many times! But this time’s different, I didn’t have tuition so I didn’t have to leave earlier, instead I could go grocery shopping with family. I love shopping at Carrefour. It’s the love! I can try out so many types of food, and get all the stuff I want to eat. We ended up getting lots of sushi, and different types of cheeses! These are really my favorites, really! After that, we went back home, by then it was already 4 plus. Rested for awhile before setting off for the hospital to visit Jeremy and Priscilla, we went there at around 5 plus. Pretty new experience for me, I have never been to any hospital at Thomson Road before, so, we found our way around, and finally got to the ward. Jeremy and Priscilla looked really good, and their baby’s 1 and a half day old! It’s so amazing, the work of God. Their ward was pretty big as well, it was private one. Parents talked to them quite a bit before the baby came in, ashton! Cool name and he looked so adorable. I guess all babies are cute yeah! After that, played around a bit, then mum prayed for them before we left so that Priscilla could feed the baby yeah. On the ride home, I tried to sleep, but I just could fall asleep, I thought of many things again. I realised I’ve a lot of work to be done after the recent OBS journey I’ve been through. I really need to work things out, and stop procrastinating.

Okay, after that, we reached home, prepared for dinner, then ate dinner! Dinner was tepanyaki, damn nice! Ah, I love the meat, it was super thin, and perfect for the grill! Great father’s day dinner, I really hope he enjoyed it! Dinner was then followed on with a glass of Ice Wine which tasted really good, light and really fruity, perfect to end of the dinner, even now, I’m still full! I ended up drinking one and a half glasses, and that made my face really red! I always blush extensively when I drink excessive amounts of alcohol yeah. I guess it runs in my blood, my dad’s face also turns out this way. After that, I took a good long bath, and here I am! (: Life’s really good. I’ll start homework tomorrow morning, I hope. Please remind me, if I fail to do so, which most probably I will. Okay, I must have faith in myself, and believe that I will do it, really!


I'm back from OBS, on the whole, it was a really life changing experience. I really learn alot from it, and most of all, I wouldn't mind going for OBS again, it was great, the food, the friends and especially our instructor, Birin. (:

Day 1
I woke up at 5 in the morning, dad fetched me to school, my bag was extremely heavy. I brought alot of extra stuff. Reached school, Saw everyone in the foyer, it was raining! And thus, everyone went to the hall, I sat with sarah and fangying. Great to be able to talk to them, we checked all our stuff, and I realised my torchlight didn't work. In the end, everything worked out fine yeah, the smaller spare one I had, was super bright.

We left for the bus going to pungol jetty, cam-whored quite abit with gracia's camera! It was really great to be with BB for a last time before OBS. Almost everyone slept on the bus there, so tired from waking up so early in the morning, and besides, OBS wasn't going to be easy. After that, we reached, and starting playing games! We played concentration with different actions, really fun! And we also tried playing murderer! Ended up, there were too many murders! (: Then, all of us managed to get onto the same boat, we had quite abit of fun too, Caryn kept winking at me! And, thus I decided to become the detective and catch her! So funny! We were being lame the whole way yeah. Alex was staring huh! (: But it was great fun. When we reached, we were split up into our different watches[groups], surprisingly, I was with Xiangyi, I was really happy! Worst nightmare was to get into a group with people I didn't know at all. It was great yeah.

Then, we went to our store to put our bags. Then we played ice-breaker games, and ate lunch! Lunch was alright, bread and an apple. We also seperated out all our rationed food. It was pretty good, there was variety and everything! Alot of buns as well. After that, we packed the store. I folded the tents with Slyvie. (: I'm pretty good at it! (: Though the tents are SUPER HUGE and HEAVY as well. But it was great yeah, but pretty tiring in the hot sun. After that, I can't really remember what happened, but mostly was alright, we cooked dinner, rice with sausages and beans and peanuts. The rice was hard, but still edible yeah. Then, we pitched tents, for the first time, and we had to meet Birin, we watched stars, and planes go by. Really interesting sight. We talked quite abit too, Birin told us what was going to happen for the next few days. We were going to camp 1 the next day. We started out at camp2 yeah. After that, went back to the tents. Tried to sleep but I couldnt really sleep, I kept sitting up, lying down, and switching sleeping positions. There were other people talking as well, the instructors had to come down to tell them to stop talking. Xiangyi slept talked. Me and Jesslyn were stunned/shocked! She screamed out I WANT MUMMY, and blabbered nonsense. I was really surprised. She suddenly talked a string of nonsense, sat up, yawned, and went back to sleep. Me and Jesslyn stared at each other, puzzled, and in shock! Haha, it was really amazing! In the end, I think all in all, I only slept for about half an hour.

Day 2
Woke up, packed our bags for the next day while eating breakfast. Didn't really know what to bring along. I ended up bringing alot of extra stuff that made my bag extremely heavy. ): Then, we started our hike to camp 2. On the way, we had this activity. We had to carry a casualty along with us on an obstacle within a time limit of 1 hour and 10mins. And if we acomplished it, we'll take the shorter route to camp 1 instead of a longer one. So, we started out. The whole thing seemed really impossible, and time kept going on, and we kept restarting as people fall, but it was alright. We persisted on, keep trying, and in the end, we made it. I held theresa's hand all the way. We were both shaking like crazy! The wooden beam was scary, and no one wanted to fall down and waste the effort of the people in front carrying the casuality yeah. We did it! (: Happy, and we took the shorter route, which was pretty long too. But, yeah, shorter than the longer one I suppose. (: It started raining as soon as we finished the activity, fortunate for us. Or else, the wooden beams would be super slippery and stuff. Then, we reached camp 2, rested quite abit at the walls. (: It was the best sleep ever. The whole of cousteau rested against the wall and fell asleep before Birin clapped his hands really looudly to wake us up for climbing. Scary, but I miss it. ): Ah, rock climbing was fun, compared to the hike in the morning. Then, we had food prepared for us in the canteen. Birin tricked us, and said we were going to sleep in the bunks. I really believed, and was over the moon. End up, he was just joking (!!!!) Okay, I should have known. We went to pitch tents, then dinner. I managed to bathe before meeting. Then, we had the briefing for the expedition the next day. We were going to row boats to camp3. Then, we started to pack for the next day. Then went to sleep, this time, Xiangyi, moaned in her sleep! Amazing, I managed to sleep, really tired after everything that happened that day.

Day 3
Woke up, unpitched tents in the cold, and I really needed to shit! It was bad, and I was shivering really horribly. Then, I survived, continuing with an early morning, packing, brushing teeth. We then had to bring everything to the jetty and move the row boats down. The rowboats were super heavy and a lot of teamwork was needed to be able to move them to the jetty for launching. The journey was alright on the whole. I started shouting different multiples, and everyone followed, it was a really great experience for us. Oh, our watch was split up into two. I was with Theresa’s tent. It was alright. Got wet, and we couldn't bathe. ): But it was alright yeah. I changed on the roads with trina! I was wearing an orange bra la, like wth. But, fortunately, no bikers came by while we were changing. We didn't even use the ponchos eh, just changed in the open. I guess it was alright. This reminds me of what happened in sec1, that was in the past la. Anyway, after that, used quite abit of powder to dry up, and to feel fresher. Then, we set of for our campsite. Sang with Theresa and Carissa and Birin at the back, really boosted my morale. Birin kept asking if I was alright. Cos I was really really burnt, and thus I looked really red! I guess, though I was feeling really exhausted and everything, I can't possibly give up, and make someone else carry the stuff. Everyone else, already had alot to carry already. I guess it wasn’t really fair for me to give up. After that, when we reached camp 3, Birin tricked us, and said that it wasn’t the right place. Ended up, it was correct. And it was all a joke. I really believed! And, now, I really miss his jokes. ): We were the second watch who reached, and it was great, we had a lot of free time. The last watch reached pretty late, I guess they might have gotten lost or took a lot of breaks and stuff. Our watch was super good. I love you, Cousteau! We had mass briefing after that, it was about the next day. We were going to kayak across ubin. I guess it’s much better than going around it. But we had to pass obstacles. The mudbank and the road. These meant that we had to get out of the Kayaks and carry them across before getting into the water again. Then, we talked quite a bit in a circle. Talked to Trina quite a bit as well, lovely talks at night. Then, Birin told us the char kuay teow story! Scary like crazy. In the end, it was all a joke! Ah, it sounded so real, seriously. Then, we talked a bit more, pretty personal stuff, then everyone went to sleep.

Day 4
Woke up at 4, COLD like crazy, had to do duty to chase wild boars away. Xiangyi and I kept banging the sticks, then lum shouted, ‘Stop hitting the sticks!’, and ‘Shut up la!’, then so funny eh! We didn’t know what to do! End up, Birin told us to shine the torch. He’s damn nice, compared to the other instructors. I felt really dirty the whole morning. Didn’t have the chance to bathe at all, felt so dirty! I didn’t brush teeth also! In fact, nobody did! I tried to pee in the sand, but failed to do so! The pee couldn’t come out at all, I guess the position was super weird, and I wasn’t used to it at all yeah! After that, we set of for kayaking across ubin. It was alright on the whole. Just that, the sitting position was super uncomfortable and stuff, and I wasn’t used to it once again. Tri-yaked with Xiangyi and Jesslyn, it was alright. We had lots of fun the the sun, really. At the end, though we were really far behind, Birin joined us, and pushed us on. He even gave me a snail! (: Ah, I really miss OBS a lot. Birin sang along as well. After that, we reached camp 2, finally! We packed up and everything. Then it was jetty jump, I was the first in line. Really scared and stuff, but with Birin behind me, constantly giving my encouragement and words of wisdom. Ah, that was what that made me jump. The jump was alright. JUST THAT I GAVE OUT A SCREAM. And all the water went into my lungs! And into my ears as well, I shouldn’t have screamed, seriously! AH, but it was a lot of fun. (: I would do it again, if I have the chance! After that, we went to bathe and pack up. We cooked dinner as well. We also made a song for Birin, the sweetest song ever. We met him after everything, and had a really long and good talk after that at the jetty once again, under the wonderful black canvas of bright stars. The sight was really wonderful. Ah! I miss ubin also as well. After the talk, we sang the song for him. Everyone started crying/tearing. I guess the atmosphere was there. Then, talked to trina and Rachel in trina’s tent for quite a bit before finally going back to sleep. I squeezed in, back into my tent. Xiangyi said she put her legs on mine? I didn’t know! Haha, I was so tired, I slept all the way.

Day 5
I woke up early next morning. It was FRIDAY, the last day of OBS. Everything seems to pass really fast, I wouldn’t mind turning time back and going for OBS once again! It was real great fun! Woke up early, unpitched tent, super cold once again! Xiangyi and Jesslyn went off earlier to shit! I guess dinner the previous night was really good! We finished all the can food! Me and Jingli stayed back to unpitch the tent. Then, we went to brush teeth and also to washup and pack up! We had to pack up the stall as well. The last day passed really fast. We sang ‘my love’ by westlife to Birin as well. Nice song, and a great song for the wonderful moment! Really suited that moment back then, then we had one last long talk, and we got back all our prized possessions! I got back my phone, started to sms people, and family! It was great to have my phone back, it means a lot to me, I realized. After that, we got our photos and souvenirs from OBS. I got two shirts! (: Going to wear them soon, I really deserve to wear them! (: Ah, they’ll remind me of the OBS journey and what I’ve learn from OBS. I’ll never forget OBS, the friends, and especially Birin, the best instructor, ever! Seriously, everything passed really fast, then it was time to go back. We forgot our last goodbye to Birin. Now, we’ll never see him again. I guess it’s not really the end that matters, but most of all it’s the journey. I really wonder how they managed to impact our lives so greatly through these 5 days! Even school teachers are unable to do that through out the whole year. I guess Birin’s really the best of best. (: On the boat/bus back, cried quite abit with Rachel. We really missed everything at OBS, the food, the smell, BIRIN, the company! Ah, I love OBS. (:

All in all, it was really a good experience, and it made me realize how fortunate I am, and how much one can do with teamwork and perseverance. And it also let me learn a lot more things. I guess it’s really a good course, really!


This post won't be long. I haven't been in the mood to blog recently, I apologize.

One word to describe the Malacca trip, "Incredible!" It was a great trip, I'm lazy to elaborate now, maybe after OBS, together with OBS. I hope, I'll get that blogging mood back! (:

OBS tomorrow, what I'm feeling right now is incomprehensible! ):


Going to Malacca tomorrow morning.
Won't be able to blog till friday! (:
But I'll have fun!


Band was fantastic, as predicted!

Oh, I really can't believe that I'm going to miss hours of band practices next week. I really wish I could go for both band and holiday! I guess that's pretty impossible till the end of the year, when we go for our overseas trip, hopefully at Italy. It's going to be great. I really can't wait for it. I also can't wait for 27 nov, another concert by CGSSB. It's going to be another great concert. We've already started preparing for it, and practicing the pieces we're going to play. (: I really can't wait. Even that, I don't want time to pass so fast, I'm enjoying every moment I have now.

Band was really great today. First, we had sectionals. It was alright, the section coorperated, though we really didn't know how to play some parts. It was alright, we passed where Mrs Chua wanted us to play till. Now, we got to work harder on Noah's Ark. I know I can do it, the running notes are really managable yeah. Seriously, though it seems really black on the score. I guess that was just my mentality earlier on, after I really figure out the notes today, I realised that it's pretty easy yeah, not much worries. It's not as tough as Da Pacem anyway. (: Da Pacem is the best! We played through Mencini as well, it was alright yeah. I just have to work abit more on my tone, articulation and the section's intonation. After that, I'll know I'll completed the piece. Sounds easy, I hope it is. Noah's Ark's running notes are manageble yeah, but I won't know about the rest. It's hard to crescendo and stuff now, especially when it's a high note and stuff, I guess things has changed. For Noah's Ark, I have really really high notes, really tough to play especially when it's running! I guess I'll just have to practice more.

I realised how fortunate I am. I have family, friends, school, church, material things and everything else. I'm really thankful. Family, I really have to thank my parents for giving me such a wonderful life. Really, without you I wouldn't know what to do. You offer the best advice anyone can give, and encourage me when I'm feeling down, and give me hope when the world gives up on me. You're there for me when I stumble and fall down. (: Brothers, I really thank you guys! Alot, without the both of you, my world would be less colourful. Though we might argue, and quarrel constantly, that's what that really paints my world colours. I wouldn't know what I would do without you, I'll feel very lost. For friends, I won't want to write out personal notes of thankyou, I can't afford the time. You know how much care and concern you guys show for me. When I lose faith, you believed in me. You really are my pillar of support, the people who hold out a hand to pick me up when I fall. Thank alot yeah! (: I'm also really glad I am borned in a christian family. Thanks to joshua for reminding me yeah. I really didn't think of that till he mentioned it that day. I'm really thankful for christian parents, there are so many of my friends out there who still haven't found out what jesus has done for us. He died on the cross to save our sins. How amazing is that? I'm really thankful for knowing and accepting this wonderful truth. I'm also very thankful to be borned into a really fortunately family. I'm glad, I have everything I have. It's really amazing how God does miricles in one's life, I'm amazed, and astonished. I'm thankful for everything else that I've missed out. I'm really grateful for what God has done in my life.


Band tomorrow!
How exciting! (: